La véritable histoire de Ben Laden

Épisode enregistré le 5 février 2023. C’est l’histoire d’un gosse de riche né dans le pays de tous les excès. L’histoire d’un homme qui a connu la richesse et la gloire avant de céder à l’appel du pouvoir. Séduisant les élites et le peuple, jouant des codes et des institutions, i ...  Show more

Épisode enregistré le 2 octobre 2022. C’est le terroriste le plus connu de notre génération, mais personne ne connaît vraiment son histoire. De sa naissance dans une famille milliardaire d’Arabie Saoudite à sa mort dans sa forteresse pakistanaise, voici le récit de la vie d’Oussa ...  Show more

It is 10 years since the al-Qaeda leader was killed. We look at the US special forces operation that finally tracked him down to a city in northern Pakistan, the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, one of the events that shaped his world view; we talk to a Western-based j ...

The US tracked down the al-Qaeda leader to a city in northern Pakistan in May 2011. Special operations troops were sent to capture or kill Bin Laden in a top secret raid in the dead of night. The Americans did not tell their Pakistani allies about the raid beforehand. Gabriela Jo ...  Show more

When the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan agreed to go and interview Osama bin Laden in 1996 he was apprehensive. By the time he reached the Al-Qaeda leader's mountain hideout - he was shaken and scared - but what was the man himself really like? Claire Bowes reports.This ...  Show more

America has a long tradition of unruly presidential brothers, none more famous than Billy Carter. He became so well-known for his antics, there was even a brand of beer named for him. Mo speaks to President Jimmy Carter and Billy's widow and six children about the surprisingly co ...  Show more